LSI RAID Intel Core i5-4570S testing with a MSI Z87I (MS-7851) v1.0 and Intel Haswell IGP on Debian 7.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. LSI RAID-6 ext4: Processor: Intel Core i5-4570S @ 2.90GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z87I (MS-7851) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Haswell DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 12000GB MR9361-8i + 240GB INTEL SSDSC2BP24, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Intel ID 2807, Monitor: AL1916, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 OS: Debian 7.5, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 3.4.2.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.4, Display Driver: intel 2.19.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.5 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 13.53 |====================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 5386.31 |==================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 284.78 |===================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 498.69 |===================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 2399.26 |==================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 264.05 |===================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 7460.02 |==================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 624.24 |===================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 2060.66 |==================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 2379.12 |==================================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 2427.60 |==================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 214.50 |===================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 42.09 |====================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 13008.99 |=================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 148.45 |===================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 5396 |======================================================= AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 598.95 |===================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better LSI RAID-6 ext4 . 10.15 |======================================================